Guinness Black Velvet

This innovative cocktail combines Guiness and champagne.

Serves:

Ingredients

50ml Guinness

70ml Champagne

Equipment

1 Jigger

1 Bar Spoon

1 Champagne Flute

method

Pour the Guinness Stout into a chilled Champagne Flute.
Add chilled Champagne and stir gently.

Alcohol content:

10.8 g per serve

Interesting Facts

When cider or perry is used in place of champagne, it is sometimes known as as a Poor Man's Black Velvet.

History of the Drink

This drink is often mistakenly attributed to a bartender of Brooks's Club in London in 1861 to mourn the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's Prince Consort. However, its roots may have been a German cocktail known as "Menschenfreund" from the 1830's (meaning philanthropist). "Champagne Velvet" is the name of the cocktail that first appears in Harry Johnson's 1888 New And Improved Bartender's Manual.